Faculty

Caroline G Dorsen

FNP-BCPhD

Assistant Professor

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Professional overview

Caroline Dorsen is a Family Nurse Practitioner (NP) with over two decades of experience as a health educator, RN and NP. She received a BA from UC Berkeley in anthropology, a BS in nursing from NYU, a MSN from Yale, all magna cum laude, and a PhD from NYU. Her dissertation was on Nurse Practitioner’s attitudes towards, and experiences working with, lesbian, gay and bisexual patients: a grounded theory. An adjunct professor of nursing at NYU since 2003, she joined the faculty full-time in 2005 as the Coordinator of the Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program. In 2012 she became the inaugural coordinator of NYU’s Family Nurse Practitioner Program and in 2015, she transferred to the tenure track as an Assistant Professor and Affiliated Investigator with the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR). Caroline’s research focuses on the health promotion, disease prevention and reduction of healthcare disparities for underserved populations including new immigrants, the homeless and LGBT persons. She has been a primary care provider at numerous community health centers and was a founding member of the NYU College of Nursing Faculty Practice. In her current clinical practice she provides full scope primary care to homeless adolescents and adults.

Education

2017 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Translational and Clinical Science Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

5/2014 PhD Nursing Research and Theory Development, New York University College of Nursing, New York, NY

Improving oral health is a leading population health goal; however, curricula preparing health professionals have a dearth of oral health content and clinical experiences.We detail an educational and clinical innovation transitioning the traditional head, ears, eyes, nose, and throat (HEENT) examination to the addition of the teeth, gums, mucosa, tongue, and palate examination (HEENOT) for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of oral-systemic health. Many New York University nursing, dental, and medical faculty and students have been exposed to interprofessional oral health HEENOT classroom, simulation, and clinical experiences. This was associated with increased dental-primary care referrals.This innovation has potential to build interprofessional oral health workforce capacity that addresses a significant public health issue, increases oral health care access, and improves oral-systemic health across the lifespan.